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1. The Modern Board: How Boards Can Close the Climate Change Gap
  
  Explore fortune.com Sep 23 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  If U.S. corporate boards weren’t taking climate change seriously, the Securities and Exchange Commission recently prodded them to act. In a proposed rule change this past March, the SEC called for public companies to make mandatory climate-related disclosures to investors. That information includes climate risks with a reasonable chance of materially affecting their business, as well as greenhouse gas emissions. The SEC expects to finalize its new rule this fall...
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2. How Boards Should Prepare for the DOJ’s Corporate Crime Crackdown
  
  Explore fortune.com Sep 23 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  Last week, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco outlined the Department of Justice’s plan to increase the number of corporate criminals it prosecutes.A few high-profile examples of successful white-collar indictments notwithstanding, the government has hauled fewer companies to court over the past decade, Monaco said...
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3. Why Your Family Business Needs Family Members on the Board
  
  Explore Harvard Business Review Sep 23 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  Imagine that your family owns and controls a fifth-generation multinational conglomerate that’s a leader in the food manufacturing industry. You’ve recently been appointed to serve on the board as a family director from your generation. Early in your tenure, Covid-19 hits and suddenly, fundamental questions that challenge the very viability of the enterprise confront a board that’s dominated by a non-family CEO and a majority of independent directors...
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4. 5 Ways to Negotiate a Solid Executive Compensation Package in a Recession
  
  Explore FastCompany.com Sep 22 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  In 2021, venture capital funding flowed freely into the tech world, bolstering big funding rounds and even bigger salaries at SaaS companies. But now it’s 2022, and that cash flow has slowed dramatically. Major layoffs have replaced funding announcements, and we’re staring down a possible recession. With outright cash and sky high salaries off the board, negotiating a strong compensation package can seem daunting...
  
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5. The Power Of Purpose: How ESG Affects Your Company's Talent
  
  Explore forbes.com Sep 22 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  Decades of fossil-fueled economic development have cost the environment. Of the 1.2 million people spread across 50 countries, who were surveyed by the United Nations Development Programme (download required), 64% recognize climate change as an emergency, and more than half of this group agreed that measures to try and halt climate change should be urgently prioritized. This is a sentiment that I've observed has begun to permeate the global business community as well...
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6. D&O Insurance Not Yet a Priority Despite Criminal Trial of Uber’s former CISO
  
  Explore csoonline.com Sep 22 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  The trial of former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan marks the first time a cybersecurity chief has faced potential criminal liability. Sullivan is charged with trying to conceal from federal investigators the details of a 2016 hack at Uber that exposed the email addresses and phone numbers of 57 million drivers and passengers...
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7. Cybersecurity Investments Are No Longer Optional, Officials Warn
  
  Explore wsj.com Sep 21 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  A mix of regulation, investor demands and insurance requirements is pushing companies to elevate the oversight of cybersecurity, officials from the U.S. and other countries say. While some companies in specific critical infrastructure sectors, such as energy and banking, must already comply with certain cybersecurity requirements, greater investment in digital defenses is needed across the board, said Brandon Wales, executive director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...
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8. Executives, And Their Compensation, Are The New Enforcement Targets
  
  Explore forbes.com Sep 21 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  As if guiding a company through the maelstrom of inflation, recession, workforce participation and quiet quitting wasn’t enough of a challenge. Corporate executives now find themselves — and their compensation arrangements — at the center of aggressive enforcement initiatives from key government regulators. And their boards of directors are being dragged into the mix, with little hope of avoiding collateral damage to relationships with their CEO, and to the company’s business planning...
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9. Delaware’s Shifting Judicial Role in Business Governance
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Sep 21 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  What do Delaware judges do all day—and what does it mean for the governance of American businesses? In our new article, “Delaware’s Shifting Judicial Role in Business Governance,” we take a close look at the work of the country’s preeminent business court, Delaware’s Court of Chancery, in order to examine the changing nature of judicial review of governance of American businesses...
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10. More Executives Could See Their Compensation Tied to ESG Goals if SEC Finalizes Climate Disclosure Rules
  
  Explore tax.thomsonreuters.com Sep 20 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  Company executives will increasingly have another thing to worry about when it comes to how their compensation is calculated: how well companies are doing on environmental, social and governance (ESG) or non-financial matters. Traditionally, executives have largely been driven solely by financial performance and shareholder returns. But some large public company executives in recent years have had a small portion of their compensation tied to ESG goals, about 5 to 15 percent of total pay...
  
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11. What Does It Mean To Be a Corporate Citizen?
  
  Explore harvardmagazine.com Sep 20 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  "There could really be no more important discussion than the one we are having today,” said Kissel professor of law David Wilkins last Thursday, introducing a daylong conference that plunged into what has become an intensely controversial subject: ESG...
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12. Chouinard’s Donation Of Patagonia Is Big And Bold, But Not New
  
  Explore forbes.com Sep 20 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  Yvon Chouinard, founder and majority owner of Patagonia, dominated the headlines last week for doing something that no other billionaire has: donating almost all his wealth at once. His move is bold, but not entirely new...
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13. Why The CFO Is Crucial To Your Company’s Cybersecurity
  
  Explore forbes.com Sep 20 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  By working together, CISOs and CFOs can combine cybersecurity expertise and known risk factors with financial information and metrics to effectively communicate with executives and the board of directors...
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14. How to Retain Your C-suite when the CEO Leaves (Hint: Bonuses aren't enough)
  
  Explore fortune.com Sep 19 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  Kewsong Lee’s unexpected resignation last month as the CEO of the private equity giant Carlyle Group understandably captured Wall Street’s attention. Departures from a company with that level of clout typically do not happen abruptly.Less surprising was the announcement just days later that the company’s global head of investor relations, Nathan Urquhart, would leave at the end of the year to join hedge fund Coatue Management...
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15. “Pay Versus Performance” Rule Increase Disclosure Obligations for Public Firms
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Sep 18 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  On August 25, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) issued final rules on the “pay versus performance” disclosure. These rules, which were in process for over seven years, dramatically expand the information that public companies will be required to disclose regarding the relationship between their executive compensation and the company’s financial and stock price performance...
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16. Cracking Down on a Wall Street Trend: E.S.G. Makeovers
  
  Explore The New York Times Sep 17 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  In early 2018, Goldman Sachs gave one of its decades-old mutual funds a makeover. It had been invested in the stocks of large European and Japanese companies across many industries, but suddenly...
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17. Cybersecurity + ESG for the Global Capital Markets
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Sep 16 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  This policy brief discusses cybersecurity from the corporate governance standpoint and illustrates how Nasdaq can implement cybersecurity into its ESG Reporting Guide, which is used by many public and private companies globally. The intersection of a company’s cybersecurity and ESG is a new corporate governance model. Cybersecurity has become a prevalent issue, specifically in the context of the digital economy, as corporate stakeholders require cyberattacks and security breaches to be proactively measured and mitigated in governing enterprise-wide risk management...
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18. Judge Nixes Lead Plaintiff in Credit Suisse Fraud Case. Are Shareholders Better Off?
  
  Explore reuters.com Sep 16 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  A federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn refused this week to appoint the only Credit Suisse Group AG shareholder who sought to lead a securities class action alleging that the bank failed to warn investors about the risk of its portfolio of loans to Russian oligarchs. The plaintiffs' firm that filed the case, Pomerantz, has said that the class action will probably now have to be dismissed...
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19. Three Steps For Engaging The Board In ESG Initiatives
  
  Explore forbes.com Sep 16 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  Organizations must connect profit with purpose...
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20. Deregulation and Board Policies: Evidence from Performance Measures Used in Bank CEO Turnover Decisions
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Sep 15 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  The banking industry has undergone substantial changes since the late 1970s, largely due to deregulation and rapid market developments. Over that period, banks’ growth opportunities expanded, and banks entered new markets, both geographic and product. Motivated by the 2008 financial crisis, researchers and policymakers have shown a renewed interest in corporate governance in the banking industry...
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21. About the SEC’s Climate Proposal
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Sep 15 2022 BoardBlogs
  On March 21, 2022, the SEC issued proposed rule, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors.
  
  The comment period closed on June 17. We have identified key themes from the responses.
  
  Regardless of this proposal, compliance with existing requirements includes the 2010 climate-related guidance issued by the SEC staff...
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22. Forming Your First Board? Here's How To Assess Candidates
  
  Explore forbes.com Sep 14 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  If you are going to bring in outside voices, what voices should be heard, and how do you qualify them? What is the process you intend to use to fill these newly created board seats? Here is a breakdown of four key steps I believe should be part of this process...
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23. How the Women On Boards Project is Shaking up Early-Stage Consumer Companies
  
  Explore fortune.com Sep 13 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  A nonprofit linking executive women with startup firms in need of new board members has announced its latest appointment. Megha Tolia, CEO and president of Shondaland, is now a new member of the board of directors for The Good Patch , a wearable wellness brand. Tolia’s appointment was made possible through a group called the Women on Boards Project . Tolia talks with Fortune about how her career led her to be uniquely qualified for the role...
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24. Presence of Minorities, Women on Credit Union Boards Leads to Geater Inclusion, Growth
  
  Explore GlobeNewswire Sep 13 2022 BoardBlogs
  
  WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The presence of minorities and women on a credit union's board of directors can positively impact both an organization's lending inclusion and asset growth, a CUCollaborate research team has found. Both groups, however, remain underrepresented among directors across the industry, according to the report...
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